The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-05
UP IN CACHE VALLEY.
Resources of the Country
Graphically Described.
THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE
Best Place For a Home
in Utah

CaclS dlIeyi nave UOL QaQ desire 10
return and again view the beauties of it
Situated as it is, rather off the genera
route of travel it is not much known
but by those who have been there, it is
proclaimed to be one of the prettiest
valleys in the Rocky Mountains. It's al
titude is about 500 feet above the sea
level, and the invigorating air and
bracing canyon breeges that one feels
during the heated months of summer,
are as welcome as the cooling draught
to the traveller on the dreary sandy
desert. We have seen Cache Valley in
the beautiful month of June, when all
nature was at its loveliest. We have
wandered through the meadows where
the sweet spring flowers grew in pro-
fusion, and gathered wild roses from the
banks of streams of crystal water. We
have travelled for miles through fields
of growing grain and waving grass.
We have passed through many of her
settlements, each with Sunday quiet
ness about it, and beheld the fruitful
orchards and the miles of shaded
streets. We have said often to our
selves: This is one of the lovellest
valleys that exists upon the face of
Coos beautiful earth. We have seen
Cache Valley in the golden month of
October when the beauties of its seem
cry has been intensified, when the
early autumn frosts have turned the
hills and mountains into variegated
garden of scarlet and purple. AS the
valley lies smiling before US in its robe
of green, It's pleasant to the sight to
look at the everlasting snow on the tops
of the encircling mountains, and then
at the valley with Its glory of summer,
and between the two the scarlet and
gold of autumn. We have visited the
canyons at this season of the year, and
our murmur of praise grows into cry
of delight as we view the beauty and
the grandeur of the scenery. The
streams of crystal water flowing be-
tween the rugged cliffs, the bright
autumnal colorS, and the bracing air
made these valleys for resting place
for His people.
The question has arisen in our minds,
when looking at the vast water power
this valley possesses, and which Is right
in the midst of her principal town.
Logan, why is it this is not utilized2"
Here is power enough to run hundred
mills. Here it lies waiting to be utilized.
Instead of this valley having only
10, 900 souls it could even row sustain a
busy population of 100000, each one
gaining an honest living by working in
filling the soil or raisiI e
cattle, pursuing the even tenor of their
way, happy and content, in utilizing the
facilities that nature had So lavishly
bestowed upon them. Do the business
men OF Cache Valley, and of Logan par
know that they are wasting
precious time; that it is to their inter |
est to move and to move unitedly and !
Systematically, inducing capital, if they
have it not, to locate there? Build |
use your surplus labor, induce |
emigration. Colonies with capital are
what you want. ADVERTISED No one |
knows your advantages. Don't be
afraid to tell them. No one can dispute |
them. They are there and have been |
since the everlasting hills, and will |
remain for all time. You have the |
finest valley in the Territory. The air |
that circulstes there is as pure, and the
sunlight that falls upon it, is as clear, |
as can be found in nature. |
Your streams of water are as CRYSTAL |
and your inhabitants are long lived ard |
healthy. Living is cheap and good. |
Why don't you tell these things to the |
world? If you continue in your Rip |
Van Wrinkle sleep, the laborer will con
Linue idle, the soil that could now be |
titled will remain barren and unpro-
iuctive. Your industries will languish.
Your hopes will fade into unbelief. and |
with all these facilities about you, you
will let ages roll over you and accom-
Dlish-nothing. But on the other hand,
t you work unitedly and with a deter
your fruitful valley will
flourish as no other, your people will be
happy and contented and the laborer
among you, who seeks employment
outside, will lInger by the hearth of
MS beloved home.
Where is there better place for agri
culture and stock raising? The cattle
IF this portion of the Territory are
more healthy than in the southern part.
Although there is no near market and |
cattle are consequently down in price at
present, there has never been an effort
If the people toward finding a market,
II BUYERS came and wanted their beef,
veil and good. if not, they waited until
hey did come. The same with pro-
lucts. The merchants have not worked
20 find markets for the produce of the
If they got an order they
illed it but never rustled mp oRe. OF
there are some exceptions. The
lay for this sort of business has
gone by and the people must
awaken to the fact. Ye, who have
capital, turn your eyes toward Cache
Valley and see if there is not an open
ng. See if there is not future for it,
greater than any one anticipates. We |
say there is. But we say it will take |
years to bring it unless her people be
stir themselves more. Let them show !
some of the same determination that !
they did in the settlement of the valley. |
Push OH, and make things hum. Re
member we do not say that there is no |
in Cache Valley. All they |
need is for her business men to unite, |
erect factories and open the way for a |
general good time. Once start the ball |
to rolling and the whole community |
will be with you. There are thousands |
Of acres of land yet to be titled. There |
are thousands of happy homes yet to
be made in Cache Valley. But !
the one thing that troubles |
US is, why you will let the years go by,
without trying TO do something 10 en-
rich the people and better their condi-
ton? IT'S true that what capital you |